Study on Digital Marketing Talent Gap

Study on Digital Marketing Talent Gap

Keeping up with the ever changing digital marketing industry is an art within itself.   It is important to try and keep going.  One of the most important methods of keeping up with the industry changes is providing the marketing department with comprehensive talent that can adapt to change and implement these latest changes to the business’ marketing strategy.

An article by the Marketing Pilgrim reported a recent study by ClickZ and Kelly Services for the Online Marketing Institute called “The State of Digital Marketing Talent,” which examines the gap between the impossible standard for applicants  digital marketing professional applicants to have versus what can be realistically expected from them.

The gap in various digital media and marketing platforms such as content marketing, social media, email marketing have reached a talent gap as wide as 27%.  Mobile marketing has a gap of 29%, while web analytics has a talent gap as wide as 37%.

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